Merlin: Where Are You Going?

Merlin: Where are you going?

Morgana: I'm headed home.

Merlin: Why, why? I thought we were all drinking tonight?

Morgana: You guys are fine without me.

Merlin: Oh come on, but it's the tavern. The tavern's fun!

Arthur: You hate the tavern.

Merlin: I like the tavern when Morgana's here.

Merlin: *to Morgana* You're the only thing in here that smells good.

I love this concept!

But I guess it would've just been too logical for our wizarding community, they haven't exactly been known to do the most logical things, have they?

But apart from this - and correct me if I'm wrong - I believe it's because not every death eater has the dark mark (as we know from Fenrir, he is a death eater but doesn't have the mark because he isn't 'worthy' of it)

I think it's only Voldemorts most inner circle, his most trusted death eaters who bear the mark. (I think there's about 25 of them? Not sure. It's those that show up/miss in the circle at the graveyard)

Plus, the people knew about the dark mark in the sky after killings but I'm not sure whether they knew it was also a tattoo for his followers.

Anyway, the mark would've only exposed a very small - though very important - amount of death eaters, not the lot of them.

If everyone was worried about who was and wasn’t a Death Eater, and the Death Eaters are all branded on their left arms, why didn’t robes with short or missing or sheer or rolled up left sleeves become A Thing? Why didn’t rolling up your left sleeve in greeting become A Thing?

This should have been a Bold Anti-Death Eater Fashion Statement and no-one, no-one in all of Wizarding Britain thought of it and was brave enough to do it? No-one???

Arthur: Really, Morgana? Merlin? Is this wise?

Morgana: I know, but you don't have a choice.

Arthur: You really want me to rely on Merlin, Merlin, to ride out and escort a princess, a princess, all the way from Escetir to Camelot on horseback, on horseback, so I can ask her to be my queen?

Merlin: Why shouldn't I?

Arthur: Because, Merlin, you're an idiot. You'll probably get lost or scare her off before you can even cross the border.

Morgana: That's what I'm counting on.

Not to be dramatic but I owe Oscar Isaac my entire life. So anyway, here are some super blurry pictures of my first Poe Dameron costest! ✨

Prompt #19:

Merlin has been in love with Arthur from the moment they’ve met. And even though there were several moments where the sexual tension was tangible, he never dared imagine something might actually happen between them.

Imagine his surprise when, out of the blue, Arthur proposes to him.

And imagine his heartbreak when he realises Arthur only proposed to spite his estranged father.

Even though the proposal was made for the wrong reasons they might realise it hasn’t been the wrong decision after all.

Merlin: ...

Merlin: Is it entirely out of the bounds of possibility, that you have an ulterior motive for making me do this?

Kilgharrah: What?! How could you think that of me!!! I'd hoped you'd know me better than that!

Merlin: You're right. I'm sorry, I-

Kilgharrah: At any given moment I never have fewer than seven ulterior motives at play.